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A Vine Grove man was arrested Tuesday after investigators discovered a meth lab at a Shot Hunt Road residence in Meade County.

Investigators with Kentucky State Police Post 4 in Elizabethtown and the Meade County Sheriff's Office served an active warrant on 22-year-old Joseph Milby, who was renting a detached garage at the Meade County home, according to a KSP news release. His girlfriend, Emily Dunn, owned the residence, police say.

Zumba for Paws is from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at E-town Swim & Fitness Center, offering visitors a Zumba class as well as a chance to view pets from the Hardin County Animal Shelter and fill out adoption applications.

E-town Swim & Fitness Center has teamed up with Zumba instructors at the facility to raise money for PAWS Shelter Foundation Inc. The organization is in the process of raising around $1 million to transform a facility on Peterson Drive into a new county animal shelter.

A Meade County woman is in a Louisville hospital after suffering a gunshot wound police believe was delivered by her husband.

Terry C. Lawhorn, 55, was charged Wednesday morning with first-degree assault after police arrested him for shooting his wife, Toni M. Lawhorn, 34, once in the stomach at their residence, according to Kentucky State Police.

Lawhorn also is charged with first-degree wanton endangerment for shooting at police as they arrived, said Norman Chaffins, public affairs officer for KSP Post 4 in Elizabethtown.

Two county water districts may be closer to finding a solution to a lingering problem regarding the use of Louisville Water Co.’s supply from the Ohio River.

Hardin County Water District Nos. 1 and 2 have joined Louisville Water Co. to determine how best to leapfrog treatment discrepancies between their systems and the analysis should be finished by September, said James Jeffries, general manager of Hardin County Water District No. 2.

A state plan to redistrict Kentucky’s House and Senate districts was struck down Tuesday by a judge in Franklin Circuit Court.

Judge Phillip Shepherd issued an order calling into question the constitutionality of the plan and extended the filing deadline for legislative districts to Friday. Shepherd last week issued a restraining order pushing the deadline back a week so he could hold a hearing and allow both sides to argue their cases.

An out-of-state man accused of having sexual contact with his stepdaughter in an Elizabethtown motel was sentenced Tuesday in Hardin Circuit Court to two years in prison.

Christifer P. Davis, 28, previously pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree sexual abuse. He was arrested April 5 by Kentucky State Police after he forcibly touched the breasts and buttocks of his stepdaughter last January at E’town Motel, according to the arrest warrant.

Leitchfield attorney and former University of Kentucky basketball player Jim Dinwiddie was discovered shot to death Tuesday morning in his home, an apartment that’s part of a former hotel on the Public Square in Leitchfield.

Authorities believe the 63-year-old took his own life.

Dinwiddie was found in a bedroom by staff members from his law office, which is just below the residence. He was the only resident of the hotel building, which he owned.

Radcliff police nabbed two people for cultivating marijuana after finding 67 marijuana plants and numerous growing materials in a Vine Street residence in Radcliff.

Antonio Jones, 38, and Janet Jones, 34, were arrested last Thursday after police received information that Antonio Jones, wanted for a warrant out of Jefferson County, was living at the Vine Street home, according to a news release from Radcliff Police Department.